February - In which the Tories: published a meaningless Brexit benefits paper; lied about asylum seekers, crime figures, cancer care, employment figures & their VIP PPE lane; and scrapped Covid19 restrictions for political gain.

1^st  

 

 ​ Department of Health writes off £9bn spent in England’s Covid PPE drive

 

Sunak pours taxpayer cash into online betting firm

 

‘Fundamentally Meaningless’ - The Government's Brexit Benefits Paper

 

Boris Johnson attended leaving do during strict January lockdown

 

2^nd

 

Johnson’s ‘Brexit freedoms bill’ won’t set us free. But it will reward his supporters

 

We are ‘scapegoats’ for government failures, say headteachers

 

Billions for levelling up ‘wasted’ as ministers pick wrong projects and ignore ‘what works’, study warns

Levelling up: The Treasury sat on its chequebook and it shows

UK government approves new oil and gas field after finding it ‘would not significantly affect environment’

UK falling behind other European nations on solar power generation

Priti Patel falsely tells MPs most Channel boat passengers are not asylum seekers

 

3^rd

 

UK government ‘failing’ to cut carbon emissions from home heating

 

Firms handed £1.3bn in Covid contracts claimed £1m in furlough grants

 

Energy bills to rise by £693 for 22 million people in April 2022

Parts of Michael Gove’s levelling-up plan ‘copied from Wikipedia’

 

Four Johnson aides quit in fallout from Downing Street parties

 

Johnson and Patel’s claims about falling crime ‘misleading’, says UK watchdog

 

4th

 

Gove acted on ‘bogus’ allegations of Islamist plot to take over Birmingham schools

 

5^th

 

UK flight compensation plan will slash average payouts

 

Booster campaign stalls as ‘partygate’ undermines trust in official advice

 

Revealed: Rishi Sunak’s behind-closed-doors meetings with banking bosses before pledging to axe City regulation

 

6^th

‘We’re terrified at what we’re seeing’: food banks tell of soaring demand

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7^th

 

Labour calls on Tories to return money from donors linked to Russia

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NHS England waiting times for cancer referral and treatment at record high

 

1m UK adults ‘go entire day without food’ in cost of living crisis

 

Government says it could use Brexit ‘freedom’ to ditch new EU car safety regulations

 

Roma accuse government of hypocrisy over Jimmy Carr joke

 

Boris Johnson accused of ‘shameful spinning’ of cancer care targets

 

8^th

 

Ministers have misled Parliament about the size of the VIP lane

 

UK will be told to lift ban on hormone-treated beef to join key trade bloc, leaked memo suggests

 

Tories fighting net zero plans are dragging climate into new culture war, experts say

 

PM faces questions over £150m deal involving firm that employed Guto Harri

 

New Housing Minister is landlord who defeated law to make homes 'fit for human habitation'

 

9^th

 

National insurance rise could mean 1m destitute households in UK, says thinktank

 

Warning over border delays when new checks kick in

 

UK minister apologises for continuing meeting after positive Covid test

 

UK goods into Germany down 8.5% in further sign of Brexit damage

 

Brexit: UK port operators slam government for failing to lay out border plans

 

‘Golden’ Visas Issued to Rich Russians Reach Three Year High Despite Russia Report Warnings

 

10^th

 

John Major says Boris Johnson broke lockdown laws and is creating mistrust

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UK ‘edging closer to flawed democracy’, say experts as nation tumbles in global governance rankings

Chris Whitty and scientists 'blindsided' by plans to scrap Covid rules in two weeks

 

11th

 

UK exports to EU fell by £20bn last year, new ONS data shows

 

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen under investigation over alleged paid lobbying

 

12^th

 

Ministers accused of fuelling conspiracy theorists’ bogus ‘common law’ ideas

 

It’s not quite the Black Death, but worker shortage hits UK firms hard

 

‘Kill the bill’: surge in Bristol riot charges prompts alarm over civil liberties

 

‘Instagram diplomacy’: concerns grow over Liz Truss’s publicly funded five photos a day

 

13^th

 

Firm behind England’s flagship tuition scheme faces dismissal after failing to hit targets

 

Tory government’s ‘tax by stealth’ will hit under-30s on low wages hardest

 

NHS chief ‘incredibly frustrated’ by government inaction on staffing shortages

 

14th

 

Priti Patel’s ‘unworkable’ asylum reforms will cost taxpayer £2.7bn a year, report finds

 

‘Yours, DC’: David Cameron’s lobbying emails to cabinet minister over legacy project revealed

 

15^th

 

No 10 pressured me to drop anti-money laundering measures, says ex-minister

Matt Hancock failed to comply with equality duty over Dido Harding appointment, court rules

 

New North Sea oil and gas licences ‘incompatible with UK climate goals’

 

16th

 

‘People are desperate’: Kent food bank and families hit hard by inflation

 

MP who said eagles not welcome in constituency received funds from shooting estate

 

17th

 

Brexit: Government warned of ‘complete gridlock’ in Kent unless more lorry parks built

 

Guidance on political impartiality in English classrooms ‘confusing’ say teachers’unions

 

71% of UK exporters say government’s Brexit trade deal is bad for business

 

Staff from climate sceptic group recruited by Tory MP behind net zero attacks

 

18^th

 

RAF aircraft was flown 330 miles for Boris Johnson photoshoot

 

​ 19th

 

Ministers set to drop UK ban on foie gras and fur imports

 

Six Tory donors given top cultural posts since Boris Johnson became PM

 

20^th

 

Boris Johnson refuses 17 times to answer questions about Downing Street lockdownparties

 

Tory donors put on secret ‘advisory council’ with access to ministers in return for£250,000

 

21^st

 

Elections watchdog tells government to drop power-grab with ‘no precedent’ in westerndemocracies

 

22^nd

 

‘Completely contradictory’: NFU leader attacks UK farming policy

 

Homelessness set to soar in England amid cost of living crisis

 

Anger over UK’s ‘poverty sick pay’ after Boris Johnson tells Britons to learn from‘disciplined’ Germans

 

23^rd

 

NHS cuts to cover Covid costs may hit patient care, Labour warns

 

UK lost up to £16bn due to fraud and error in Covid loans schemes

 

Ministers’ loan plans could stop poorer students in England going to university

 

24^th

 

Millions will be worse off after below-inflation universal credit rise, say experts

 

Boris Johnson again reprimanded after misleading employment claim

 

Leaked documents say Roman Abramovich has paid for political influence, says Labour MP

 

25^th

 

UK government has abandoned its own Covid health advice, leak reveals

 

26^th

 

Stressed NHS staff in England quit at record 400 a week, fuelling fears over carequality

 

27^th

 

Councils ‘will have to cut key services to pay for UK storm damage’

 

Tory MP suggests Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion should apply for UK’s seasonalwork visas

UK scientists fear brain drain as Brexit rows put research at risk

 

28^th

 

Sussex woman forced to sleep in wheelchair due to lack of care staff

 

Patients will be endangered by flaws in health bill, says NHS ombudsman

 

Home Office sent family back to Afghanistan a week before Kabul fell

 

UK signs Brexit trade deal with New Zealand promising 0.02% GDP boost by 2035

 

‘Offensive attitudes’: Anger as London Assembly Tory leader says ‘Black community has acrime problem’